General questions about functionality

Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:46 pm

Hello new user here. I've been using XMM for years and it's clunky with limited mobile accessibilty. I like the idea of web accessible but look forward to a mobile app.

That being said I did an import of 1900+ titles had 7 unmatched. At the surface that seems pretty good.. then I notice my coollection is 1661 movies. I take a look through and see that lots of collections type movie entries don't exist and I can't make my own entries. I see the forum and title submittal and see everything is based off IMDB entries. So what do you do with movie sets that don't have IMDB entries do you always break them into individual movies? Also since TV series are all combined into one entry how do I know which ones I own looking at the web portal? example standing at the dvd rack and I see something on sale but I can't look it up to see if I'm missing season 5 and 8 of CSI or whatnot.

hammerhead wrote:what do you do with movie sets that don't have IMDB entries do you always break them into individual movies?

Yes, movie packs are broken into individual movies. When a movie is included in a pack, the "owned videos" box of the movie lists the pack. And if you expand the pack, you'll see all the movies that it contains.

Re: General questions about functionality

Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:14 pm

First off thanks for the response and your time.

I imported my extreme movie manager XML database export into Coollector. 1911 titles imported, 7 not recognized, 1661 end total. Haven't figured out if it's just all the TV Seasons that collapsed in to single entries to account for the difference yet.

By collections type I mean: Things like "10-Film Man Cave Pack" was imported as the movie "10" I searched for a few others like Afterdark Horrorfest, The Prophecy Collection and I now assume I need to make packs for all of those.

I already added the 6 films from Star Wars: The Complete Saga individually I just need to make a pack now... Are the packs a searchable item once created?

I look forward to a mobile app. XMM had mobile app support through a 3rd party who has stopped maintaining their apps. My ideal would be sharing the DB to myself and my wife so either of us can tell if we have something when we are out and about. Maybe syncing between mobile and desktop so additions by barcode or title would be accessible everywhere.

Re: General questions about functionality

hammerhead wrote:Haven't figured out if it's just all the TV Seasons that collapsed in to single entries to account for the difference yet.

That could be the explanation. Our program is movie-centric instead of video-centric.

hammerhead wrote:Things like "10-Film Man Cave Pack" was imported as the movie "10" I searched for a few others like Afterdark Horrorfest, The Prophecy Collection and I now assume I need to make packs for all of those.

Absolutely. The import tries to figure out the movie from the title, but if it's not a movie title, the result is of course wrong.

hammerhead wrote:Are the packs a searchable item once created?

There's a packed filter to find the movies inside a pack (don't forget to set the status filter to "owned").

You'll probably have to click the button "add/remove filters" to make appear the packed filter.

hammerhead wrote:My ideal would be sharing the DB to myself and my wife so either of us can tell if we have something when we are out and about.

Re: General questions about functionality

Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:26 pm

I find it interesting that some of your users may do what I do by purchasing movies at bargain prices. In the past I have bought duplicates because I thought I didn't have that movie and the price was right. I guess it is obvious persons with a collection so large it requires an app to manage are not paying full price for their movies.